Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 21:41:51 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.wjv.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new rc.network6 and rc.firewall6 Message-ID: <20001022214151.C7279@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <20001022153957.A4742@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:39:57PM -0700 References: <ume@mahoroba.org> <81966.972151537@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20001022153957.A4742@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:39:57PM -0700, David O'Brien thus spoke: > On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 11:05:37AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > I wish to update rc.network6 and introduce rc.firewall6. > > Hmmmm. I must confess that I see /etc as getting rather cluttered > > these days. Is there no way to perhaps collapse some of the most > > related functionality into single files and start passing arguments > > or something? Just a comment.. > At BSDcon Luke M showed me what the NetBSD 1.5 rc files look like. > They've moved them all to /etc/rc.d/ and made them very granular > (as SVR4, but w/o leading numbers in the filenames). The NetBSD > implementation also solved all the issues people have brought up > in the past -- dependacies, etc... > We should just move to using their rc code. One of the reasons for the numbers in the SysVR4 arena is to set the order of execution so programs which other depend upon are executed first. How does the NetBSD solve this problem. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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